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ber of inhabitants as Atchn, has a commodious 

 haven, and produces roots in abundance. Of feveral 

 fmall rivulets there is one only which flows towards the 

 North, that contains any fifli. Befides thefe a clufter of 

 other illands were obferved ftretching farther to the 

 Eaft, which were not touched upon. 



The inhabitants of thefe fix iflands are tributary to t^e'iThabi^ 

 Ruffia. They live in holes dug in the earth, in which 

 they make no fires even in winter. Their clothes are 

 made like fliirts, of the fkins of the *guillinot and puffin, 

 which they catch with fpringes. Over thefe in rainy 

 weather they wear an upper garment, made of the blad- 

 ders and other dried inteilines of feals and fea-lions oiled 

 and fi:itched together. They catch cod and turbot with 

 bone hooks, and eat them raw. As they never lay in a 

 flore of provifion, they fufFer greatly from hunger in 

 ftormy weather, when they cannot go out to fifii ; at 

 which time they are reduced to live upon fmall fliell-filh 

 and fea-wrack, which they pick up upon the beach and. 

 eat raw. In May and June they kill fea-otters in the fol- 

 lowing manner : When the weather is calm, they row 

 out to fea in feveral baidars : having found the animal^, 

 they ftrike him with harpoons, and follow him fo clofely,. 

 that he cannot eafily efcape. They take fea dogs in tha 

 fame manner. In the fevereft weather they make no 

 addition to their ufual cloathing. In order to warm 



* Colymbus Troile, Alca Ardiica.. 



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